Cork man who self-medicated with cannabis to ease pain of jaw injury grew €60,000 worth of the drug

Court heard accused had a diagnosis of autism and bi-polar disorder and had difficulties with psychosis and his focus on growing the drug meant the operation got out of control

Accused admitted sharing the cannabis with friends and when questioned by gardaí, he said he would have been paid a total of up to €10,000 over a period.

A Cork man’s cannabis growing exploits proved so successful and he got carried away with it to such an extent that by the time gardaí raided his apartment, he had grown €60,000 worth of the drug.

Defence senior counsel Jane Hyland said Ciaran MacCarthaigh, 29, of Leeside Apartments, Francis Street, Cork, had a diagnosis of autism and bi-polar disorder and had difficulties with psychosis.